On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 21:08, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com>wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@hughes.net> wrote:
What is the proper procedure for sending a patch for the man pages? I've done some work on pacman.8 to reflect some of the wiki changes. Also would it be acceptable to include in the man page that the -f option has been deprecated and shouldn't be used and do the same on the pacman wiki page?
There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:Requests#Remove_-f_short_optio...
Karol: Thanks for the link. Not quite what I was referring to. From earlier in the conversation:
now, why do you think that -f will solve every problem? -f is not for forcing updates when dependencies are not met!
Stop using -f.
I was only curios since I see a lot of our users using -f along with -Su and with -Sdd lately and maybe our manual is not clear enough.
I meant adding/emphasizing a warning to the man pages and the wiki page about the use of -f or --force. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!